U+051A "Ԛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa Unicode Character

U+051A "Ԛ" Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa is a rarely used letter found in the Cyrillic script, specifically designed to represent the voiceless uvular plosive sound /q/, which is not present in standard Russian but occurs in certain languages of the Caucasus region, such as Abkhaz and Ossetian. It belongs to the Cyrillic Extended-B block and was added to the Unicode standard to support the accurate encoding of these minority languages in digital text. The lowercase counterpart is U+051B "ԛ," and the letter is typically transliterated into Latin script as "q" or "ḳ."

General Properties

Code Point	U+051A
Version Added	5.1
Name	Cyrillic Capital Letter Qa
Block	Cyrillic Supplement
General Category	Uppercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	Ԛ
HTML Hex Encoding	Ԛ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xD4 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x051A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000051A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u051a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Alphabetic
Uppercase	Yes
Simple Lowercase Code Point	"ԛ" U+051B Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
Lowercase Code Point	"ԛ" U+051B Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
Simple Case Folding	"ԛ" U+051B Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
Case Folding	"ԛ" U+051B Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
Cased	Yes
Changes When Casefolded	Yes
Changes When Casemapped	Yes
Changes When Lowercased	Yes
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	Yes
NFKC Casefold	"ԛ" U+051B Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
NFKC Simple Casefold	"ԛ" U+051B Cyrillic Small Letter Qa
Script	Cyrillic
Script Extensions	Cyrillic
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	Upper